Sermon #S020 - That
Wasn't On The Program - Part 1)
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Pastor Debleaire Snell: Luke
Chapter 7, and we're going to
begin together at verse number
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11. When you get there,
just say, "Pastor, I'm here."
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[Congregation:
Pastor, I'm here.]
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Pastor Snell: Luke 7:11. The
word says, "Now it happened, the
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day after, that He went into a
city called Nain; and many of
His disciples went with Him, and
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a large..." What?
[Congregation: Crowd.]
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Pastor Snell: "...a large crowd.
And when He came near the gate
of the city, behold, a dead man
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was being carried out, the only
son of his mother; and she was a
widow. And a large crowd from
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the city was with her." So you
have a large crowd going in, and
then you have another very large
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crowd, a throng going out. And
the Bible says that, "When the
Lord saw her, He had compassion
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on her and said to her, 'Do not
weep.' Then He came and touched
the open coffin, and those who
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carried him stood still. And He
said, 'Young man, I say unto
you..." What? [Congregation:
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Arise.] Pastor Snell:
"'...Arise.' So he who was dead
sat up and began to speak. And
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He presented him to his mother.
Then fear came upon all, and
they glorified God, saying, 'A
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great prophet has risen up
amongst us'; and, 'God has
visited His people.' And the
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report about Him went out
throughout Judea and all the
surrounding region." Today,
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saints, with just a little
while, I want to talk to you
under the subject That Wasn't on
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the Program. That Wasn't on the
Program. Let's pray together
today. Father, in this finite
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amount of time, would you please
communicate some eternal truth?
Father, I'm praying that faith
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would be awakened to such a
degree. Lord, that your people
step forward with boldness
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before mountains, commanding
them to move and we expect it to
take place. Father, we pray that
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your spirit would become so
dense in this space that it
would suffocate all rivaling
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principalities. Lord, would you
settle our minds? Move us away
from online activity. Remove us
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away from who's across from us
and help us to settle our
attention upon you. Lord, would
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you hide me in the shadows of
the cross that Jesus alone might
be seen, that Christ alone would
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be heard? At the end of our time
together, may Jesus alone be
praised. We ask this in the name
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of Him who is altogether lovely.
It is in the name of Jesus that
we pray. Let God's people say
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together, Amen.
[Congregation: Amen]
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Pastor Snell: And Amen. You may
be seated in the House of the
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Lord. Again, talking to you
today on the subject That Wasn't
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on the Program. You know,
friends, one of the reasons we
struggle with belief is that
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sometimes, we try to make faith
formulaic. Some believe that
there are certain rules that
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govern the movements of God so
much so that we think that if we
believe X and if we do Y, that
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God is obligated to do Z. We try
to predict God's future
movements, really, just based
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upon His past movements. But
what somebody needs to be aware
of today is that God has no
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algorithm. God has no
combination. He has no password.
Does anybody know that Jehovah
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cannot be hacked?
[Congregation: Clapping]
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Pastor Snell: In other words,
you cannot accurately predict
what God is going to do unless
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he reveals it. Even if God
reveals what He's going to do,
how He's going to do it will
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still remain a mystery. It is
why Job in Chapter 36 says that
God is great and His ways are
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beyond understanding. It is why
Isaiah 55 says that His thoughts
are just above our thoughts and
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His ways are above our ways. I
guess the overarching motif of
this message is that you're
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going to frustrate yourself
trying to discern all of God's
movements. But understand that
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my peace is not in His
movements, my peace is in His
character. In other words, I
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don't need to know exactly what
God is going to do. I just need
to be fully convinced that my
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God is faithful. Is there
anybody that still believes that
our God is a faithful God?
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[Congregation: Clapping] In
other words, friends, you don't
have to worry about God
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performing His word because in 1
Thessalonians 5, he says the God
that called you is faithful and
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He will do it. I don't have to
worry about God protecting me
from enemies for in 2
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Thessalonians 3:3, the Bible
says that God is faithful and He
will strengthen you and protect
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you from the evil one. I don't
have to be worried about trials
because Paul says He is faithful
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and will not let you be tested
above that which you're able to
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bear. I need you to know I'm not
even scared of condemnation
because Bible says if I confess
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my sins, He is faithful and just
to forgive my sins and cleanse
me of all unrighteousness.
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Is there anybody that knows you
don't have to be afraid of bills
are financially clearing because
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our God is faithful? The prophet
David says, "I have been young
and now, I'm old and I have
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never seen the righteous
forsaken or His seed begging
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after bread." The problem with
some is that we've got our
praise on pause waiting to see
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how things are going to work
out. But is there anybody that
knows that God is so faithful
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that you can praise Him in
advance because you know it's
not a matter of if, it's just a
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matter of when God shows up. Are
you all not with me today?
[Congregation: Clapping]
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Pastor Snell: It is funny. I
remember a few years back, we
were getting ready to take our
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kids on a camping trip for the
weekend. We had told them that
we were going to go after they
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got out of school. Now, I have
this thing where I will not
allow my kids to pin me down and
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just agree to doing certain
things. I'll only say it if I
know I have the bandwidth in
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order to perform it. About
Wednesday of that week, my
daughter came to me and says,
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"Daddy, thank you for taking us
camping." I said, "Baby, have I
forgotten something? We're not
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going to this weekend? Why are
you giving thanks already?" She
looked at me as to say, "Well,
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you said we are going. If you
say we are going, it just must
mean it's going to happen." She
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says, "I don't want to forget to
say thank you after, so I'm
going to go ahead and get it out
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of the way." [Congregation:
Clapping] Pastor Snell: Is there
anybody that knows that God is
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faithful and you don't have to
wait for him to do it? Go ahead
and praise Him in Advance
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because you know it's not a
matter of if, it's just a matter
of when. Are you hearing me
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today? Go back with me, if you
don't mind, to Luke 7 and let's
look at verse number 14. The
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Bible says, "Then He came and
touched the open coffin, and
those who carried him stood
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still. And He said, 'Young man,
I say unto you, arise.'” Now,
friends of mine, I need you to
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understand that there are a
number of lessons that emerge
from this story today. The first
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thing it teaches is that the
devil won't wait for you to get
old to send pressure. You all
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are with me today. The Bible
says that Jesus is entering into
the city of Nain and there, he
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intercepts a funeral that is
already in progress. Understand
that we don't know much details
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about the dead man, but the one
thing that we know is that Jesus
refers to him as a young man.
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This boy's youth is what adds
grief and weightiness to this
scenario. In fact, there seems
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to be a lack of justice because
parents are not supposed to bury
their kids, but kids are
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designed to bury their parents.
Friends, we don't really know
what is the cause of the young
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man's death. Maybe he is killed
in a tragic farming accident.
Maybe he is smitten down by an
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enemy who means him harm. Most
likely, he has contracted a
childhood disease that seizes
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upon his mortality when he gets
old. The greater truth, young
people, is that Satan put some
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sorrows and stresses upon a
young man that are outside of
the season of his age.
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In other words, friends, when
his peers are on Instagram, he
is on an incubator.
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When everybody else is in
the DM, this brother is going to
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dialysis. There are some things
that are latching on to his
youth that are threatening his
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very wellbeing. Understand,
friends, that the devil upsets
his youth by giving him some
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sorrows that are beyond his
season. There is somebody that
needs to be clear that the devil
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doesn't fight fair. In other
words, he won't send a trial
that's congruent with your
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maturity. Understand, the enemy
of our souls will send trials
that are greater than the season
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of your maturity. The truth is
that like the young man, there
are some of our students that
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are dealing with sorrows that
are beyond your season. You have
not had a childhood that was
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filled with bliss and carefree
living. Like the man in the
story, you've been carrying some
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grown folk issues even from the
time you were a child. In fact,
there are some of us that have
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had adult family pressures as
you've tried to process why some
families have two parents when
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you only have one. Some of us
have been afflicted
involuntarily as her innocence
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has been taken away because
someone in authority put their
hands where they did not belong.
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There are some like the man in
the story that have had a thorn
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in their flesh, a sickness that
has kept you on edge. There are
some of us that come out of
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toxic family situations and
neighborhood pathologies, and
you've seen them from the time
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you were a child. As quiet as
it's kept, your church self has
been dealing with thoughts of
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suicide since you were a
teenager in school. Isn't it
crazy how you got to be 16 to
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drive a car, you've got to be 18
to enlist in the Army, you've
got to be 25 in order to get a
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rental vehicle, but you come
with hell attached to you as
soon as you come from the birth
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canal? The reason I'm saying
this is that there are some
young people today that have
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looked at how your young life
has unfolded and you thought
that your life lacks
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significance. You thought that
your life was cursed. You
thought you were the only one
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that went through these types of
things and somehow, it just
seemed unfair. Can I make an
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announcement to you today? I
need you to know that life has
not been unfair because what
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makes life fair is that it's
unfair to everybody. Let me say
it again. What makes life fair
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is that everybody's been touched
by something and we're all going
through something. Are you all
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hearing me today? The reason you
feel like they're not going
through it, is because they
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don't look like what they've
been through. Okay.
[Congregation: Clapping]
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Friends of mine, I need somebody
to get this larger and more
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imperative truth because the
stuff that you went through made
you feel like your life is not
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significant. But understand that
your significance is not seen in
the privileges you've received,
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but it's seen in the attacks
that have been allowed. In other
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words, friends, I need you to
know that the devil is great at
attacking or identifying special
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children. Do you all
remember the child Moses,
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that his life would be so
significant that the devil sent
a genocide against all the
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firstborn males just to limit
the prosperity or development of
one young man? In Esther's time,
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the entire Jewish people we're
about to be taken out just to
keep her life from realizing
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it's potential. How many of us
understand that if your life
pose no threats, then there
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would be no such attacks? But
the pressures you've gone
through have hardened you.
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They have developed you. They
have helped define who you are.
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Your pains literally aim you in
the direction of the community
that you will one day serve.
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Let me point your praise in this
way. Instead of complaining
about what you had to come out
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of, maybe you ought to thank God
that you're one of the few that
actually made it out.
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Is there anybody that
came from a less than perfect
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circumstance? I know you send up
here in a degree, but you came
from that part of the
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neighborhood and you came from
the other side of the tracks and
there are a lot of folk that
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didn't make it. Can you give God
a praise that He's sheltered you
and kept you, and that you are
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here by the grace of God. I need
somebody to get it because you
look at what's happening and you
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felt like something has always
been resisting you. You feel
like something has been holding
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you back. You feel like
something has been keeping you
back. I need you to know that
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when you thought the devil was
holding you back, you didn't
realize that God was just
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winding you up. [Congregation:
Laughing and clapping] Oh, God.
I need you to think about this
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in the context of an archer. Has
anybody ever seen somebody shoot
a bow and arrow? In other words,
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if you only wanted to go a short
distance, you only pull it back
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or short distance. If it's only
going to go to our midpoint, you
only pull it back to a midpoint.
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If you wanted to go really far,
the further you have to pull it
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back. The further you pull it
back, the further it is going to
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go forward. Do I have at least
seven or eight folk that are
being pulled all the way back?
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You thought the devil was
holding you , but God was just
winding you. The further back
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you've been pulled, the further
you're going to go. Are you
hearing the word today?
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Friends of mine, there is a
spiritual truth I need you to
get. Satan didn't wait till you
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grew up to send pain. He didn't
wait till you got 47 to send the
attack. He didn't wait till you
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got rooted in the word to send
pressure. He didn't wait until
you got settled in truth to come
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for you. The reason he doesn't
want you to get settled is he
wants to come while you're still
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exposed. He wants to show up
while you're still vulnerable.
He wants to make sure he attacks
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while you're not covered. This
is why, young folks, the devil
rejoices whenever you're in the
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hallway during worship. It is
why he gets excited when you
don't take spiritual things
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seriously. It is why he is glad
when you act like prayer is an
activity for the old folk.
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Because he wants to send a
pressure that is greater than
your spiritual infrastructure.
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You all are mighty quiet today.
I need you to know that this
applies whether you're a young
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person or an older person. Never
let your attacks be more mature
than your foundation.
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There's somebody that needs
to make it up in their mind
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because you've only
made mistake to say that,
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"I'm going to get serious about
spiritual things when I get 25."
"I'm going to go deep in the
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word after I get married." "I'm
going to start over when I have
kids." I need you to know that
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if you're old enough to go
through pain, if you're old
enough to come under attack, if
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you're old enough to have the
devil come for you, then guess
what? You're old enough to pray.
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You're old enough to get a
foundation. You're old enough to
know what you believe. You are
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old enough to get settled in the
word of God. I guess you need to
remember what Paul says in
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Ephesians 6. He says, "Put on
the whole armor of God, that you
may be able to stand against the
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wiles of the devil." Are you all
with me today, church? He says
you got to put on the whole
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armor of God. Now, I need you to
get this, friends, that no
soldier puts on the armor after
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the fight starts. No, no, no.
They don't go out into the
battlefield with an enemy
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charging toward them talking
about, "Where is my helmet and
where is my shield?" Before the
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battle shows up, they put their
armor on. Are you all hearing me
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today? [Congregation: Yes.]
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Pastor Snell: Let me say it this
way. Anybody ever see the movie
Black Panther? I know you saved.
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Come on. Anybody ever seen Black
Panther? I know you know the
lion of the tribe of Judah, but
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you've seen Black Panther,
right? It's crazy. Do you
remember when Shuri began to
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upgrade the Kings armor? What
she did was she put the armor in
the necklace around his neck.
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The reason she put it around his
neck, she said you can't go
looking for a helmet once the
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bullets start flying. She made
it a part of his outfit, so that
whenever their attack came, all
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he had to do is activate the
armor. Is there anybody that
wants to be armed with the
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helmet of salvation and when the
attack comes, you ain't got to
look for it. All you got to do
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is activate it because you're
covered by God. Are you all
hearing the word today? The
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second thing this thing teaches
us, friends of mine, is that God
is the director of your delays.
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Oh... What Luke is describing,
friends, is a scene of
congestion. He is wanting you to
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get a mental picture of a human
traffic jam. Understand that
you've got hundreds of people
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who are there to mourn with the
widow as they are exiting the
city. But then, the Bible says
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you don't just have the
disciples. You got a whole crowd
that is following Jesus into the
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city. You've got two crowds on
the verge of intervening while
one has no knowledge of the
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other. It's crazy because we
don't really know whether or not
the city of Nain is a walled
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city. The one thing that we do
know is that the city has a gate
of entrance, an access point by
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with some go in and while others
come out. Isn't it interesting,
friends, that you've got a
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throng of people with the lady
leaving, but because some have
run ahead of Jesus from
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Capernaum? They have already
began to post up at the gate and
they begin to block the
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entrance, so the funeral
procession is held up.Oh yall
still didn't get it yet? In
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other words, I need you to get
that. There is a wall of bodies
that is blocking the exit, so
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the widow can't get out. In
other words, I need you to get,
man, that the pallbearers are
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getting a little shaky because
they're having to hold this body
longer than they planned to
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that. The funeral deputies are
trying to get folks out of the
way so that they can show
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respect for the deceased and the
mourning mother, who is trying
to get out. Isn't it amazing
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that they were supposed to be at
the grave site about 20 minutes
ahead of when they actually get
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there? But I need you to get
friends that the Father is
creating a divine intersection.
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You all are not hearing me yet.
In other words, understand that
the woman is at a place where
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she is anxious because she's had
on these shoes all day. She is
ready to finally get this
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nightmare over. She is
frustrated because she is behind
schedule. The problem is the
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woman is right there at the
entrance of the gate, but Jesus
is still a little ways from the
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gate. So the Father sends a
crowd to hold up the lady just
long enough, that by the time
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the dead man comes out, the
resurrection is right there
waiting for him. In other words,
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God had to send somebody to hold
her up. Why? Because she was
moving ahead of her miracle. Her
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schedule was ahead of the
blessing. Sometimes, God sends
our delay to hold you up, so you
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don't miss your divine miracle.
Friends of mine, let me just be
clear on this. There is never
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going to be a time where we're
going to rejoice over delay.
Come on and say Amen today? The
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truth is because we are people,
we want it to happen quick,
fast, and in a hurry. Let me
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pause to say to somebody that is
in a season of delay, before you
curse your delay, let it unfold
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and play out because sometimes,
you don't know what what is
keeping you from and you don't
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know what God is keeping you
for. I need you to know,
friends, that sometimes in
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delay, God is keeping you from
something. Sometimes, God is
keeping you for something. Now,
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I want to be clear that there is
nothing wrong with having a
schedule and having an agenda,
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but how many of us have lived
long enough to know that God is
not bound by your plans? Let us
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be clear that God's steps are
not ordered by man. Man's steps
have to be ordered... Oh, yall
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mighty quiet. Your steps must be
ordered by God. Are you all with
me today. Sometimes, you are
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moving faster than your miracle.
Sometimes, you're going to
schedule your way out of
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providence. Sometimes, you're
going to rush your way out of
your blessing, so God sends some
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traffic to hold you up so you
don't miss your miracle. Because
we're human, we're not going to
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celebrate delays. But I need
somebody to understand,
fundamentally, as the minister
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said, how many of us know that
there is nothing accidental
about your life? There is
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nothing that is random. My life
is not the result of good luck
or good fortune or serendipity.
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My steps have been ordered by
the Almighty God. We love to
shout that God is in charge of
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our steps, but will you still
shout when God is overseeing
your stops* ?metimes, God sends
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a delay to preserve you from
some things. Sometimes, He's
preserving you from a danger you
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can't see. Sometimes, He's
preserving you from a marriage
that's going to bring you pain.
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Sometimes, He's preserving you
from a job that's going to
compromise your values.
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Sometimes, He is keeping you
from circumstances that will
bring our unrest. discord, and
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strife to your life. Sometimes,
He's preserving your from and
sometimes He's preserving you
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for. Sometimes, God blocks some
avenues so he can preserve you
for the right job. He preserves
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you for the right house. He
preserves you for the right
spouse. He preserves you for the
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right situation. Instead of
complaining that is taking too
long, just be still and wait on
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the Lord. Let things begin to
unfold and see what He's
preserving you for and what He's
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